Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

• PhD Student

Research Interests:

• Seismogenic source characterisation for seismic hazard assessments.
• Slow-slip events and earthquake physics.
• Earthquake catalog compilation.
• Source-magnitude scaling relationships.

Career:

• 2021-2023: Researcher in the “KUK AHPAN” Research Project for Seismic hazard update in Central America at the Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM).
• 2020-2022: Researcher in the "Seismic hazard update for Costa Rica" Research Project at the University of Costa Rica.
• 2019-2021: Researcher and Seismic Analyst at the National Seismological Network of Costa Rica (RSN-UCR) at the University of Costa Rica.
• 2018-2020: Researcher for seismic network evaluation and seismic data analyses in the "EWARNICA" Project: Earthquake Early Warning in Central America" with the ETH, Swiss at the University of Costa Rica.
• 2018-2023: Professor for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Geography and Geology courses for public and private Universities in Costa Rica, and for studying abroad programs for USA Universities.
• 2015-2018: Research and teaching assistant at the National Seismological Network of Costa Rica (RSN-UCR) and at the Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI-UNA).

Education:

• 2021-2022: MSc. Seismic Risk Analysis using Geospatial Technologies, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
• 2020: Postgraduate Diploma in Evaluating Scenarios for Risk Reduction, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
• 2017: Postgraduate Diploma in Seismology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
• 2012-2017: BSc. Geology, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
• 2011-2016: BSc. Geographical Sciences, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
  

Projects:

• PhD topic (in process): Development of new methods to analyze Slow Slip Events (SSEs) and geodetic data for their integration into probabilistic seismic hazard models.

Awards:

• Scholarship from the "German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)". Funding Program/Research Grants for Doctoral studies in Germany (2023-2024).
• Msc Thesis Hons, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain (2022).
• Scholarship from the "Fundacion Carolina". Funding Program for Master's studies in Spain (2021-2022).
• Research fellow at the High Technology Center of Costa Rica (CeNAT), San José, Costa Rica (2018-2019).